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CSPAN Washington Journal March 3, 2014

What the u. S. Response should be to the events going on in ukraine. Heres how you can reach out to us. If you want to give us a call democrats, 202 5853880. Republicans, 202 5853881. 5853882. Ts, 202 if you want to send us a tweet,. O so cspanwj sendsend this email us email at journal cspan. Org. Secretary of state karri plans on tuesday. Region he discussed the situation in ukraine. Red there are serious repercussions that can flow out of this. There are a broad array of options available. I spent yesterday afternoon on the phone with many of my counterparts. Foreign ministers of countries most engaged and all of them, every single one of them are prepared to go to the hill in order to isolate russia with respect to this invasion. They are prepared to put sanctions in place, they are prepared to isolate russia economically. The ruble is already going down. Russia has Major Economic challenges. I cannot imagine that an occupation of another country is something that appeals to people who are trying to reach out to the world and particularly if it involves violence, i think they will be inviting difficulties for the longterm. The people of ukraine will not sit still for this. They know how to fight. They have demonstrated remarkable bravery. You think about yanukovych positioning his snipers on the , andtops of kiev notwithstanding people falling to the right and left, these marchers kept on marching and demanded their freedom and opportunity to have their voices heard without a clip talk or see y. N leptocracy want to businesses may start thinking twice about whether they want to do business with a country that behaves like this. These are serious implications. Secretary is secretary of state kerry. Democrats, 202 5853880. Republicans, 202 5853881. Independents, 202 5853882. Us on social media as well. The Russian Foreign minister says that Russian Troops that have streamed into ukraine are protecting his country cost citizens living there. That it is necessary to use Russian Troops in ukraine until the normalization of the political situation. Inventions interventions on the pretext of civilian populations produce the opposite effect. Ukraine has accused russia of a military invasion. Is our,ll, here chicago, illinois, morning. Caller good morning. Host what you think of the situation so far and the u. S. Response . I am not the president nor do i serve on his Foreign Relations or National Security team. What the u. S. Response should be. Unless anyone else who is calling and serves on those two hearties, they have no idea what the u. S. Response should be, either. Host is any other response appropriate . Caller i cant say if a response would be appropriate, but there should be a response. Georgetown, massachusetts, dan. Caller i suggest to the last caller that he actually digs into it and find some than relyingrather on the information we get from big media. Not being reported in the press is the fact that this appointed leader of ukraine happens to be a western central banker himself that aligns with the western central banks. What a lot of people in america are not paying attention to is that a lot of the wars, these afghanistan, iraq, were centralbank wars. Now, it looks like the banks are going in on ukraine. Americans, or as americans should be informed, and they are not being informed by watching the large media. They need to dig into this stuff to get the facts. Your perspective then, whats of the u. S. Response be . Hard to say. Groupk there is a called canvas and they are out washington,ttees in fundedd they have been by taxpayers. This uprising in ukraine has origins of this canvas group, funded by u. S. Taxpayers. To takeican people need more responsibility and how the government is using our name. Host walter, independent line, good morning. Your two previous he has tos understand the history of the reasons i keep going up in our face. We are not responsible. I remember back in the early, early busherm term, there was no nationbuilding. We must not build these nations. Economically build resistance towards the bullying that the russian president is undergoing. It seems like he is doing the same thing that bush did. Iraq. Ieve our way into we had to respond to afghanistan. We do not need any more military involvement. We must not involve ourselves. Hundreds of thousands of russians were killed and more were two. If that does not prompt you to understand why putin would go in there he did not go in all of ukraine, he went into the crimea area. He went there not to defend his people, but to defend that port area. Would you say stand back and do nothing . Caller i said respond economically. We do not need to revisit the cold war. We do not need the star wars defense shield. Isolateto economically russia and show them that the 60 billion that he spent for the olympics is almost equal to for the 36pense olympics. This off of twitter deeply concerned that russia will expand its military intervention in ukraine. Stsa needs to impose co now. Heres bethany, columbia, maryland. Independent line. That the media is and they vilify the russian president and there is still those cold war mentality that the russians are always wrong and they are always bad and they are some sort of monsters. Go towesterners the rescue. That is not always true. Host what you think the proper response should be . They should let the russians and ukrainians figure out what is best for them. There is truth about the outernationalists. They are not good for the ukraine. Majority of ukrainians they voted for the president. The president was elected. He won the majority. From the very beginning they hated him and they wanted to depose him. Westhey think of the automatically takes up their side. Conflictsilitary happen, does that change your stance . Caller i dont know. And the west attacked iraq afghanistan, did anyone else i dont know. Military solves anything. It is just more killing. There should be diplomacy and fairness and many people should take part in it, not just one side. I know the western part, they have a lot of friends here. Media automatically takes their side. Senator carl levin also responding on twitter. Gary, from twitter, adding we should do nothing. It is not our problem. When the russians cross our borders, call me. You can give your thoughts on what the u. S. Response should be when it comes to ukraine. The numbers will be on your screen. South carolina, richard, good morning. Caller i am calling in man that to our second was calling saying we should stay away and let russia and ownaine solve their problems. If you think about it, every time we try to involve ourselves, we end up make it more worse than what it was in the beginning. Benghazi, syria. We try to involve ourselves in too many things. A bunch of will be turmoil over and over again. We have not settled any conflict. It is costing us crazy. Host if you see a Large International group going towards this together, including the u. S. , that would be ok . Caller i think that is the best way to go. Have other countries involved. We have been trying to do everything on our own and it has broken us. With the money we spend, were spending 20 billion a month when we were in iraq. A week or twobout ago that last year alone we spent 44 billion in natural disasters. We cant do this. We have to have other countries involved. We are not getting anywhere. We are spending it spinning our wheels. Facebook is one way you can reach out to us. Here is betty. Republican line. Caller we should go back to poland and the Czech Republic and begged them to let us that wethe missiles decided not to install. It is a shield that we need. We always needed it. Maybe they will let us go ahead with that. Host what dictates the need for reemphasizing a shield . Caller if this doesnt prove dot the russians are how you trust them when they do stuff like this . Think they can pour thousands of troop into another country and that is ok, breaking Something Like five or seven different treaties. They are not trustworthy. Host bob corker weighing in on twitter. Congress will consider targeted sanctions against russias persons and entities that undermine sovereign and territorial integrity of ukraine. You can give your thoughts. Facebook, twitter, and email. Piece an oped options to out maneuver russia. They might consider a creative demonstrate that support. By the Foreign Ministers of the u. S. , poland, germany, the u. K. And france to stand with the new ukrainian leaders. This is rich, pennsylvania, democrats line. Think we should stay out of it. It would be just like if the texas gulf coast want to separate from the United States. Go in think we would there and stop it . We need those gulf ports. Take another look at what is going on china. They are laughing at us. We owe them billions of dollars and keep borrowing from them. They are not sending troops anywhere. Host was is the value of staying out of it . Fix our ownave to country. We need the money right here. Host bob is up next, crystal lake, illinois. Oil,r ukraine needs natural gas. What i dont understand is why dont the ukraine leaders compromise . Keep backing leaders instead of explaining to them how inclusion of the minorities will help them. Ukraine should include russian speaking people in parliament. It would make a lot more sense if they were inclusive, such as the United States has done. You would not have this problem in the first place. On twitter there must be accountability for the deaths in kiev. It is key to future progress in ukraine. Taking a look at this event. Invite of recent decisions, the russia rift fuels u. S. Defense debate. Ukraine crisis comes just as mr. Obama this week land to unveil a budget plan that calls for cutting the size of the u. S. Army and further reductions. Cutbacks are likely emboldening mr. Putin in it ukraine. Be releasedwill tomorrow. We are looking at the u. S. Response and what should be in your opinion. Heres how you can reach out to us. Democrats, 202 5853880. Republicans, 202 5853881. Independents, 202 5853882. You have heard thoughts off of twitter and facebook. You can send us those, cspanwj and on our facebook page, facebook. Com cspan. Legislators are making their thoughts on shows yesterday. We will give you those thoughts momentarily. You heard from the wall street journal as far as the military defense. Editors weighing in this morning. This is the new york times. Russias aggression is the title. That is from the washington post. The risk of wishful thinking. Those with the title of the that is the headline. Here is wrong, new york, republican line. Ron, new york, republican line. Caller if you watch what is going on in ukraine, it is a wonderful thing. They showed the world that they can make a stand and make a difference. Should take ina that we are the leader of anyone that wants to fight for their freedom and make a stand. We should not have borders discrepancies and the abuse that is what it is. Host what should the stand look like . Caller i dont believe the military is the way to go. Iran showed that sanctions could be put in place. If we state a policy and dont impose, andhat we will bring the world to the same stage to show everybody what is going on. We dont want to go in there with the military, but whatever it takes to help these people out. Host does that include economic support . Caller if need be. I would put a timeframe on it. Seem tome the americans get involved with somebody, it is never a quick fix. It is always long and drawnout. Host rene, mississippi, independent line. [indiscernible] host mike, roseville, michigan. Caller we should stay out of it. Every time we get involved it goes wrong. Our democratic process is not that great to be imposing our own world. The minorities are not included in our democracy, but we are trying to force this democracy all around the world. It is some in some way hypocritical. As russia and of their people were way over here on the east. Legislators weighing in. Sndsey graham, the enator, both are asking what president obamas response should be. [video clip] every time the president goes on National Television and threatens anyone like putin, everyones eyes roll. He needs to do something. Suspend russian membership in the g8 and g20. Every day they say in crimea, add to the suspension. Do something. Disagreeine you will with the description of how president obama has handled things. Of course i disagree. You expect the president of the United States to speak out about putin is trying to do here. Invading countries and daring people to go to war is the tactic of a bully. With the president has done a speak out against them. This notion of taking him out of the g8 has been 6 00 a. M. Suggested by the administration. What congress us doing what the senate should do is a resolution has doneg what putin and say that if ukraine was done will stand up for real or form, and make it clear to the allies in nato that the alliance is strong and neighbors of russia that we are going to do everything in our power to discourage further aggression by putin. Host we are welcoming your thoughts off of twitter and facebook. Democrats, 202 5853880. Republicans, 202 5853881. Independents, 202 5853882. Post has anon interview with haman karzai. Afghans died in a war that is not ours. Mind, al qaeda is more a myth than a reality. The majority of the United States prisoners here were innocent. Some americans call karzai a delusional leader, who became an and adversary during the 12 years of his presidency. Grand rapids, michigan, democrats line. I would like to point out some similarities in terms of conduct pretext from up pretext. Trumped up memod the downing street and cherry picking intelligence. That seems similar. I will take my response off air. You mean it is similar to the ukraine situation . How so . Activity in the backyard of russia. If we had that same activity in our backyard, we would be sending in tanks. Host that is john, grand rapids, michigan. Putin declares war is the headline. Actobama and the west must instead of merely threaten. After the invasion of georgia, wassident obama pretended it was dick cheney. As part of the thoughts of the wall street journal. This is twitter. Nato leaders should play a proactive role. Theyre hiding kind amercos position americas position. If you want to make your thoughts part of this discussion, off of twitter, it is cspanwj. For facebook, it is facebook. Com cspan and if you want to send an email, it is journal cspan. Org. Other nations at russias doorstep. The romantic gesture such as smoothing russias entry into the wto worse this post were supposed to help as was the decision to of the g8 meeting in sochi, the site of the recent withdrawal of picks. Senator graham and others talk about the situation. Tyrone, pennsylvania, good morning. Caller good morning. I would like to say in reference ukraine, here we are, we went into afghanistan after russia, russia had to leave. They were going broke. We are following the same ,attern of being in a country all of our treasures are gone. We lost a lot of soldiers. We are having a big fight in the senate and we cannot get anything through to congress. Were going to tell this country what to do. N is saying they have no money, because we are constantly claiming broke. He is going to ratchet his war of. He has no reason not to go at because he sees no backlash from the United States. He will not get it. Gas, controlling the oil, and this is about money. This is economics. If we dont take the money back from him and slow them down, we are not going to do anything to putin and he knows it. Host are sanctions the best way to go . Caller that is the only thing he will respect. He went broke in afghanistan. We are the ones having the problem. Host dave, florida, republican line. Caller good morning. We need to stay out of it. We do not realize how expensive war is. Is on the other side of the world. I say ask the middle class because they are the ones that are going to pay for it. What is the value of staying out of it altogether is umer and we get from . Staying out of it altogether. What do we get from it . Enough is enough. Lets get our own house in order before we tell someone else how to run theirs. Host louise, republican line. Caller our institutions are totally broken. There supposed to have state department they are supposed to be peacemakers. They dont make peace. They may or. Ukraine is the breadbasket of the world. A commodities i am talking about the world commodity dealers. They need to stop buying and selling the hedge funds. They need to get out of the business of commodities. John, crofton, maryland. I dont always agree with senator graham, but he is probably giving a measured fromnse to suspend russia attending the g8 and to have a penalty for every day that their troops stay in the crimea. They have no business being there. However, i think obama has been an enabler. Putin knows he wont do anything. Putin just had to wait until the olympics were over and now he is having his will. They are not going to give up the crimea without force. I think obama caused this by appointing john kerry, who is on the same page as obama. By reneging on the red line to do something in syria. He is a week president. Putin knows that. Rejecting the notion that he underestimated mr. Putin. They said he had a cold eye assessment of the possibilities and limitations of engagement with mr. Putin. While mr. Obama had not gone as far as many in washington want him to go, the president has been less focused on immediate action than on making sure he and americas traditional allies on the same page. Working from the oval office over the weekend, he called several of his g8 counterparts to make sure every city is him lockstep with low we are doing and saying. We will take our next call. Frank, new york. Caller good morning. This war should say and stop were trying itself as the police of the world when in reality we are the bullies of the world pushing for corporate interests. We need to stop this. Our freedoms are at risk because of corporate greed and a corrupt government. We have enough issues here. We need to stop being hypocrites and making the whole world hate us as we leave them. War, letant to go to the government officials go to war. Leave the minorities and the poor who do not benefit out of it. Several ambassadors got together and wrote this. Ukraine will fight. Suggestions, they should continue to exert restraint in the face of russians. Dont shoot first. Second, they should continue to make clear that there is no threat to russian citizens and russian speakers in ukraine. The new government and kiev intends to represent and serve all ukrainians. A new government in kiev should bring in moderate all citizens moderate politicians from the east. I was a peace corps volunteer in ukraine from 2007 to 2009. I want to reply to some of the information out there about the

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